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1) Moby-Dick
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Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship to seek adventure. With his unexpected friends, Queequeg, a cannibal harpooner, he joins the Pequod, captained by the mysterious Ahab. But Ahab is only interested in seeking revenge upon the great white whale, Moby Dick, who took off Ahab's leg on an earlier trip. It's a hair-raising whale hunt where Ishmael's search for adventure turns into a desperate wish to survive!
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"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed--but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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In the 1840s Tasmania's capital Hobart was the second largest whaling port in the world. Total commercial exploitation of whales was the order of the day. As the first truly global industry, whaling was a major contributor to Australia's colonial development, but the hardships and dangers were many. Journey into the beautiful wilderness, delicate ecosystems and rugged coastline of Tasmania to learn about its ties to the "monster of the deep", the...
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Blue Earth Books
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English
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The diary of a young girl who traveled with her family on her father's whaling ship in the 1860s records her schooling, dangerous whale hunts, and the activities of her baby brother. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
8) Moby dick
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Español
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Narra la traves a del barco ballenero Pequod, comandado por el capit n Ahab, en la obsesiva y autodestructiva persecuci n de un gran cachalote blanco. Al margen de la persecuci n y evoluci n de sus personajes, el tema de la novela es eminentemente enciclop dico al incluir detalladas y extensas descripciones de la caza de las ballenas en el siglo XIX y multitud de otros detalles sobre la vida marinera de la poca. --
9) Moby Dick
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Uni Dist Corp (Music)
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English
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Herman Melville's classic tale comes to life like never beforein thei suspenseful and thrilling new adaptation.
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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Special edition ; Widescreen version (2.55:first).
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English
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A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
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St. Martin's Press
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First edition.
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English
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After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale, accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist, to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese fleet,...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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First edition.
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English
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After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical murder mystery" (USA Today). On May 25, 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later, while most of the crew was out hunting, Captain Howes Norris was brutally murdered. When the men in the whaleboats returned, they found four crew members...
14) The North water
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English
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The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
15) The ghost ship
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Minotaur Books
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First U.S. edition.
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English
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"The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and...
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Signet Classics
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English
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Enter the dark worlds created by Edgar Allen Poe in the collection "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales." Poe emphasizes morbidity and death through his tales and poems, and this anthology holds all of Poe's best and most famous works from throughout his career. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," a man and his sister suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness, and the fragile mansion falls...
20) Parisian love
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Kino on Video
Edition
Double feature edition.
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English
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In Parisian love, Marie, a dancer in a seedy district of Paris, attempts to seduce the wealthy man who stole her lover in an elaborate scheme of revenge. In Down to the sea in ships, Thomas Allan Dexter becomes a whaler to gain the approval of a devout Quaker for his older daughter Patience's hand in marriage. When Dexter and the Quaker's younger daughter Dot, a stowaway, are on board the whaling ship, they are caught in the middle of a plot by two...
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